Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 105

He was alive but very weak; he could only open his eyes for a moment to look at Tiny, who stood by holding a piece of decayed wood in her hand, for she had no other lantern. "

Who acts: visitor, Tiny · What happens: be, open, look, stand, hold, decay · To what, where: eyes, piece, hand, other lantern

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (visitor, Tiny), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 alive	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 alive	cop
3	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 weak	cc
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 weak	advmod
6	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 alive	conj
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 open	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 open	nsubj
9	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 open	aux
10	only	only	ADV	_	11 open	advmod
11	open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 alive	parataxis
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 eyes	nmod:poss
13	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 open	obj
14	for	for	ADP	_	16 moment	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 moment	det
16	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 open	obl
17	to	to	PART	_	18 look	mark
18	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 open	advcl
19	at	at	ADP	_	20 Tiny	case
20	Tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 look	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 stood	punct
22	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 stood	nsubj
23	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 Tiny	conj
24	by	by	SCONJ	_	25 holding	mark
25	holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 stood	advcl
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 piece	det
27	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 holding	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 wood	case
29	decayed	decay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 wood	amod
30	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 piece	nmod
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 hand	case
32	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 hand	nmod:poss
33	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 holding	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 had	punct
35	for	for	ADP	_	37 had	case
36	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 had	nsubj
37	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 stood	conj
38	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	40 lantern	det
39	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 lantern	amod
40	lantern	lantern	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 had	obj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 alive	punct
42	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 alive	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	visitor				alive property	tree rules
2	be		visitor not said here					tree rules
3	open	could	visitor	visitor's eyes		moment		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location eye=Theme
4	look	to-infinitive	visitor not said here				at Tiny	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at tiny=Theme
5	stand	past						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	hold	gerund		a piece of decayed wood	Tiny's hand			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent piece=Theme in hand=Location
7	decay	participle						vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
8	have	past	Tiny	no other lantern				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lantern=Patient

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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